Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
The Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves is a complex of Buddhist cave grottos dating from the 5th to 14th century between the cities of Turpan and Shanshan at the north-east of the Taklamakan Desert near the ancient ruins of Gaochang in the Mutou Valley, a gorge in the Flaming Mountains, in the Xinjiang region of western China.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 239 metres (784 feet)
- …is also known as “Bezeklik Caves”
- Description: cave in People’s Republic of China
Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves
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Latitude
42.95643° or 42° 57′ 23″ north
Longitude
89.53948° or 89° 32′ 22″ east
Open location code
8MJFXG4Q+HQ
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In Other Languages
From Assamese to Ukrainian—“Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves” goes by many names.
- Assamese: “বেজেক্লিক হাজাৰ বুদ্ধ গুহা”
- Azerbaijani: “Bəzəklik mağaraları”
- Basque: “Bezeklik leizeak”
- Catalan: “Coves de Bezeklik”
- Chinese: “柏孜克里克千佛洞”
- Chinese: “柏孜克里千佛洞”
- Chuvash: “Безеклик”
- Dutch: “Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves”
- Dutch: “Duizend Boeddhagrotten van Bezeklik”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهوف بيزكليك”
- French: “grottes des mille Bouddhas de Bezeklik”
- French: “Grottes des mille Bouddhas de Bezeklik”
- German: “Bezeklik-Höhlen”
- German: “Tausend-Buddha-Höhlen von Bäzäklik”
- Hebrew: “מערות בזקליק”
- Hungarian: “Bezeklik ezer buddha-barlangok”
- Hungarian: “Bezeklik Ezer Buddha-barlangok”
- Indonesian: “Gua Ribuan Buddha Bezeklik”
- Indonesian: “Gua Seribu Buddha Bezeklik”
- Italian: “Grotte dei mille Buddha di Bezeklik”
- Japanese: “ベゼクリク千仏洞”
- Kazakh: “Безеклик”
- Korean: “베제클리크 천불동”
- Lithuanian: “Bezekliko Tūkstančio Budų urvai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tusen Buddha-grottene i Bezeklik”
- Norwegian: “Tusen Buddha-grottene i Bezeklik”
- Persian: “غارهای هزاربودای بزقلیق”
- Polish: “Bezeklik”
- Romanian: “peșterile celor O Mie de Buddha din Bezeklik”
- Russian: “Безеклик”
- Slovenian: “Jame Bezeklik”
- Spanish: “Cuevas de Bezeklik”
- Swedish: “Bäzäklik”
- Swedish: “Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves”
- Tatar: “Безеклик Мең Будда Мәгарәләре”
- Turkish: “Bezeklik Mağaraları”
- Uighur: “بېزەكلىك بۇددا غارلىرى”
- Ukrainian: “Безеклік”
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